Writing

  • Sea Legs (Fig Tree, forthcoming) – memoir on interdependence, caring and the sea, co-authoring with Oona Dooks.
  • Connective Tissue (Taproot Press, 2023) – novel based on the life of Eleanor’s grandmother, Dora, a Jewish Berliner who arrived in the UK as a refugee in 1939. 
  • The Tin-Kin (Duckworth, 2009) – novel based on photos, artefacts and memories of Eleanor’s Travelling family. 
  • One Day Ticket, stage play for Edinburgh International Book Festival’s Citizen Project. Editor and co-author (2022)
  • Egg –  short fiction (an early chapter of Connective Tissue) in A Meal for The Man in Tails (The Scottish Arts Trust, 2021)
  • Violetta – a short story commission for Luminate Festival (2019)
  • The Long Game – non-fiction article in The Author (Autumn issue, 2018)
  • Séance – a flash fiction zine commissioned by Edinburgh City Council and Artwalk Porty, a co-written collaboration with artist Chris Dooks (2018)
  • The Session – short fiction in Mixing the Colours Glasgow Women’s Library (2015)
  • The Roller – narrative fiction based on community interviews in Dennistoun for Impact Arts, performed live, (2015)
  • Oona – narrative non-fiction in Gutter Magazine issue 11 (2014)
  • Babber – short fiction in Road Stories (Faber, 2012)
  • Sassuolo – short fiction commissioned by Edinburgh Book Festival, features in There – Elsewhere (Cargo, 2012)
  • Seeing in the Dark – narrative non-fiction for Glasgow Film Theatre’s For All project (2013)
  • Betsy Whyte – non-fiction chapter in Women of Moray (Luath, 2012)
  • The Trolls – narrative non-fiction in Absolutely Notting Hill magazine (2012)
  • The School – short fiction in Glasgow Tramway’s literary journal Algebra 3 (2011)
  • Cliff – short fiction in Gutter Magazine issue 05 (2011)
  • The Mumpers – short fiction broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2009)
  • Burns – (an early chapter from The Tin-Kin) was published in the anthology Outside of a Dog (Chroma, 2006)
  • Is the Viking in you Gasping for Attention? – non-fiction article about my linguistics research, appeared in The New Shetlander issue 234, (2005)

Awards